Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 685 437 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.91% 14.26% 11.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.17% 51.72% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 344 321 725
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,375 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,393 845 1,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.20% 27.57% 26.10%
Number of salaries quoted 825 610 1,518
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +1 167 £38,750 -3.13% 22
Hertfordshire -2 152 £60,000 +9.09% 64
Cambridgeshire -2 148 £53,000 +17.78% 41
Suffolk +34 102 £47,739 -4.52% 12
Norfolk +1 86 £56,000 +61.07% 24
Bedfordshire -2 28 £33,250 -37.26% 25
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 81 (11.82%) SharePoint
2 36 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.75%) WordPress
4 8 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.88%) CMS
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 72 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.31%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.31%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.29%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.29%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (23.36%) Microsoft 365
2 131 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 114 (16.64%) Azure AI
4 94 (13.72%) Entra ID
5 86 (12.55%) AWS
6 63 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (5.84%) OneDrive
7 40 (5.84%) PowerApps
8 37 (5.40%) Power Automate
9 34 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 34 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 22 (3.21%) GitHub
11 20 (2.92%) GCP
12 19 (2.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (2.77%) SaaS
13 15 (2.19%) IaaS
14 13 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 11 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 65 (9.49%) Firewall
2 36 (5.26%) DNS
2 36 (5.26%) VPN
3 23 (3.36%) DHCP
4 18 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.90%) Internet
5 13 (1.90%) WAN
6 12 (1.75%) VoIP
7 10 (1.46%) LAN
8 8 (1.17%) Wireless
9 7 (1.02%) Broadband
9 7 (1.02%) Network Security
9 7 (1.02%) VLAN
10 6 (0.88%) DMZ
11 4 (0.58%) MQTT
11 4 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.58%) WLAN
12 3 (0.44%) SSL
13 2 (0.29%) L2TP
13 2 (0.29%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (16.93%) Power BI
2 84 (12.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (10.66%) Tableau
4 41 (5.99%) MongoDB
5 27 (3.94%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.02%) MySQL
10 6 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.88%) Looker
10 6 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.44%) Big Data
11 3 (0.44%) Metadata
11 3 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (1.90%) Git
1 13 (1.90%) JIRA
2 6 (0.88%) MLflow
3 5 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.29%) Selenium
4 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.15%) ERwin
5 1 (0.15%) git-flow
5 1 (0.15%) JMeter
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
5 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.15%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 365 (53.28%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.09%) Finance
3 30 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.36%) Law
5 16 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.19%) Marketing
6 15 (2.19%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.90%) Legal
8 12 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.46%) Retail
10 7 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.88%) Multimedia
12 5 (0.73%) Advertising
13 4 (0.58%) Banking
13 4 (0.58%) Games
13 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (23.65%) Analyst
2 130 (18.98%) Junior
3 128 (18.69%) Junior Analyst
4 117 (17.08%) Developer
5 83 (12.12%) IT Support
6 70 (10.22%) Security Analyst
7 65 (9.49%) Data Analyst
8 64 (9.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 64 (9.34%) Junior Data Analyst
8 64 (9.34%) Junior Security Analyst
9 60 (8.76%) Ethical Hacker
10 56 (8.18%) Senior
11 55 (8.03%) .NET Developer
12 43 (6.28%) IT Engineer
13 41 (5.99%) Support Engineer
14 39 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
15 32 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
15 32 (4.67%) Lead
15 32 (4.67%) Network Engineer
16 31 (4.53%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (12.26%) .NET
2 73 (10.66%) .NET Core
3 70 (10.22%) CSS
4 61 (8.91%) HTML
5 54 (7.88%) ASP.NET
6 53 (7.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 29 (4.23%) RESTful
8 28 (4.09%) React
9 24 (3.50%) Entity Framework
9 24 (3.50%) ML.NET
9 24 (3.50%) Node.js
10 22 (3.21%) HTML5 Canvas
10 22 (3.21%) JSON
11 19 (2.77%) Microsoft Graph
11 19 (2.77%) SPFx
12 18 (2.63%) Blazor
13 17 (2.48%) REST
14 14 (2.04%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.75%) Vue
16 11 (1.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.76%) Cyberattack
2 37 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.36%) Driving Licence
4 18 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 14 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (1.02%) Clustering
8 7 (1.02%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.02%) PKI
8 7 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.02%) Robotics
9 6 (0.88%) Blog
9 6 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.88%) iPhone
9 6 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (17.23%) Windows
2 75 (10.95%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (2.34%) Linux
5 14 (2.04%) Android
6 10 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.73%) VMS
9 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (30.22%) Cybersecurity
2 174 (25.40%) AI
3 122 (17.81%) Mentoring
4 119 (17.37%) Business Intelligence
5 103 (15.04%) Agile
6 90 (13.14%) DevOps
7 72 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (10.22%) CI/CD
9 60 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (8.76%) Ethical Hacking
10 58 (8.47%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (8.18%) Machine Learning
12 41 (5.99%) Roadmaps
13 38 (5.55%) Computer Science
14 35 (5.11%) Project Management
14 35 (5.11%) User Experience
15 32 (4.67%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (4.53%) Customer Service
16 31 (4.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (4.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 209 (30.51%) SQL
2 136 (19.85%) Python
3 118 (17.23%) C#
4 60 (8.76%) JavaScript
5 49 (7.15%) PowerShell
6 33 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.65%) PHP
8 14 (2.04%) Java
9 10 (1.46%) C++
10 7 (1.02%) R
10 7 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.44%) Bash
11 3 (0.44%) Bicep
11 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.44%) Ruby
12 2 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 261 (38.10%) Azure Certification
2 71 (10.36%) CompTIA Security+
3 68 (9.93%) Degree
4 65 (9.49%) CompTIA CySA+
5 60 (8.76%) CEH
6 39 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (5.40%) Security Cleared
8 35 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (4.82%) CCNA
10 28 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (4.09%) Network+ Certification
11 21 (3.07%) SC Cleared
12 10 (1.46%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.46%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.02%) CISSP
14 6 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.88%) CCNP
14 6 (0.88%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.07%) GDPR
2 20 (2.92%) QA
2 20 (2.92%) SLA
3 17 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.90%) NIST
5 12 (1.75%) GRC
6 9 (1.31%) NCSC
7 8 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.02%) JSP 440
9 6 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.58%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.58%) PMO
11 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 113 (16.50%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.23%) Hyper-V
3 26 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.19%) Docker
4 15 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.88%) vSphere
7 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 44 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.92%) Terraform
4 9 (1.31%) Ansible
5 4 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.58%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 491 (71.68%) Microsoft
2 148 (21.61%) ForeScout
3 46 (6.72%) Cisco
4 31 (4.53%) VMware
5 24 (3.50%) Apple
6 19 (2.77%) Adobe
7 18 (2.63%) Databricks
8 15 (2.19%) Google
9 11 (1.61%) Meraki
9 11 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.46%) SAP
10 10 (1.46%) Veeam
11 9 (1.31%) Epicor
11 9 (1.31%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.88%) Aruba
13 6 (0.88%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.88%) Dell
13 6 (0.88%) Facebook
13 6 (0.88%) Salesforce